Not too surprising, really - muscle is denser than fat, so the same volume would weigh more.
Your lean body mass has increased, your body fat percentage has gone down. That's, essentially, ideal healthful maintenance living, though it's likely that, if you keep working at it (ie: continue to pick up heavy / heavier things, eat your protein/wheaties/etc), you'll have larger muscles soon.
in fact, it's entirely possible that this is already happening - due to the six-month measurement cycle you're using, you may have "bottomed out" and are on the way up in terms of observed measurements - that nadir being when you'd lost some/most of the fat, but your muscles hadn't grown much yet. (to try and avoid this, I try to do it monthly)
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Date: 2010-07-09 07:18 pm (UTC)From:Your lean body mass has increased, your body fat percentage has gone down. That's, essentially, ideal healthful maintenance living, though it's likely that, if you keep working at it (ie: continue to pick up heavy / heavier things, eat your protein/wheaties/etc), you'll have larger muscles soon.
in fact, it's entirely possible that this is already happening - due to the six-month measurement cycle you're using, you may have "bottomed out" and are on the way up in terms of observed measurements - that nadir being when you'd lost some/most of the fat, but your muscles hadn't grown much yet. (to try and avoid this, I try to do it monthly)